These folk rock anthems of the 1960s are just a few memorable, historically relevant works to come out of one of the best musical decades.
The trio’s recordings of two of his songs, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” became Billboard Top 10 hits during an American renaissance in folk music.
The American folk music legend died Monday at age 94 of natural causes. His wife of 70 years, Toshi, died last year. As with all influential musicians and songwriters, Seeger's music will live on.
Below is 22-year-old Baez performing the song at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. It would be difficult to tell the story of American folk music ...
The soft-spoken, 6-foot-3, pole of a man with a banjo, was a giant in the history of the American fight for social ... off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan ...
NEW YORK – American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Jan 7 at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow died in the ...
Although his degree was in psychology, he had found his true calling in folk music at Cornell when he worked as a teaching assistant for a class in American folklore his senior year.